1. United States
2. Ind.
3. Letter

Dear Member of Congress, I am writing to strongly oppose the Department of Justice’s reported effort to challenge state-level AI regulations under the banner of competition and innovation. Regulations exist to protect people, land, water, energy systems, and public health. They are not arbitrary barriers. They are responses to real harms already occurring: massive data-center water withdrawals, electrical grid strain that raises household utility bills, land and environmental degradation, opaque development agreements, and the transfer of private infrastructure costs onto the public. Using federal authority to override or intimidate states that are exercising their right to protect residents is reckless. It shifts risk downward—onto communities—while insulating powerful corporations from accountability. That is not pro-competition. It is regulatory capture. If artificial intelligence cannot advance without bypassing environmental law, zoning authority, consumer protections, and democratic oversight, then the problem is not regulation. The problem is the development model. Congress must not allow antitrust enforcement to be repurposed as a weapon against states acting in the public interest. I urge you to demand oversight of this DOJ task force and to reaffirm that innovation does not grant immunity from the laws designed to protect people and shared resources.